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Wikipedia • The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

Farsleben Train, April 1945. US GIs record survivors at liberation site, Farsleben, Germany.

MATTHEW ROZELL BOOKS
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NEWLY DISCOVERED US SIGNAL CORPS footage dated 4.17.1945, in the immediate aftermath of the train's liberation by the 743 Tank Battalion and 30th Infantry Division. No sound. Visit TeachingHistoryMatters.com for more information. From NARA: "Summary: Numerous scenes, freed Jewish prisoners in groups along railroad tracks. Their expressions furnish a clue to the suffering they endured. Individual shots: Men, women, and children, some of them in various stages of emaciation. Flashes of US soldiers distributing food. The group surrounding the soldiers push forward to receive meager bits of food. LS, village being shelled by German artillery from across the Elbe River. ...more
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Farsleben Train, April 1945. US GIs record survivors at liberation site, Farsleben, Germany.
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2023Jul 29
NEWLY DISCOVERED US SIGNAL CORPS footage dated 4.17.1945, in the immediate aftermath of the train's liberation by the 743 Tank Battalion and 30th Infantry Division. No sound. Visit TeachingHistoryMatters.com for more information. From NARA: "Summary: Numerous scenes, freed Jewish prisoners in groups along railroad tracks. Their expressions furnish a clue to the suffering they endured. Individual shots: Men, women, and children, some of them in various stages of emaciation. Flashes of US soldiers distributing food. The group surrounding the soldiers push forward to receive meager bits of food. LS, village being shelled by German artillery from across the Elbe River.

MATTHEW ROZELL BOOKS

301 subscribers